César Rojas Ángel

Alumni

César is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. His most recent short-film, SUMAPAZ, tells the story of a farming community in one of the most important water reservoirs in the Andean mountains and their struggle to preserve their livelihoods while protecting the environment. He is currently working with Chris Ehrmann on a short-film about an indigenous leader in southern Colombia who is struggling to promote medicinal cannabis in a country with years of stigma around this and other traditional plants.

As an online and broadcast journalist, he has focused in environment, migration, the rights of indigenous communities and the challenges for the peace process in Colombia, among other topics.

In the US he has worked in Los Angeles Times and he has also reported with the French public network France 24. In 2020, just before the pandemic, César traveled to the Colombian border with Ecuador to report on the story of two female indigenous governors of the Siona people who protect their territory from armed groups and extractive oil companies. The multimedia work was part of the project Land of Resistants, which received a third price for Excellence in Environmental Journalism of the Fetisov Journalism Awards and was a Premios Gabo‘s finalist.

Among other works, César has told stories from the Colombian and Venezuelan frontier, the Amazon rainforest and from the areas once ruled by guerrilla groups in his country.

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Colombia, Decolonization, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Communities, Latin America, Latinx Communities, Peace and Conflict, environmental science, migration